[Bf-funboard] Icons for VSE

[Reiner]

A well made icon is self explanating and well to remember. That`s a bit 
different from plain colours where you have to make guesses what the 
current colour means. Even worse with a hotkey. It doesn`t even show. 
You have to know that it is there. That hotkey part was the part that 
has kept me away from Blender for several years.

I like the tooltip idea though. What about to show the icon when the 
mouse is over the element, and the tooltip when the mouse is over the 
icon ? :)

Am 28.08.2012 10:32, schrieb Bol Bib:
> perhaps. But everything has to be learned,colors and Icons. If I know sound is yellow,I will learn that. But right now sound and movie are quite similar,so ,imo,it can get quite confusing on that alone.
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> another option is maybe a tooltip that shows what's under your cursor.
> It could contain an icon followed by the name of the item?
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:04:37 +0200
>> From: magick.crow at gmail.com
>> To: bf-funboard at blender.org
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-funboard] Icons for VSE
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Bol Bib <bollebib at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> on the readability problem
>>>
>>> Maybe you could just go into the Ui settings (theme) and change the colors of the sound (or movie) to better differentiate the 2? Just make it yellow ,or something and it should stand out very much.
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>>> Maybe the default could be changed for new users of the sequencer?
>> I kind of like the colors. The problem is that you don't know what
>> they mean when you first look at it. This leads to it looking
>> confusing and that is never good. But in Barton's example there is so
>> much info that you get overloaded and adding icons could just lead to
>> more overload. The classic design answer would be to find a better way
>> to group things but I don't know how that would work. I still like the
>> idea of having icons. Perhaps they would only show up on zoomed in
>> views.
>>
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